Re: Pop-up messages

Morning:

These "messages in a box" (as opposed to the new hit movie "Message in a
Bottle" .. <smile>) are known as "Alternate Text Descriptions". Whenever you
place an image into your HTML code you should always include the size
dimensions as well as the "alt" description. It is basically used to
describe the type of image as an "alternative" to loading and viewing the
image. If a viewer were to browser the page with images turned "off" the
"alt" text would tell the viewer what type of image is present.

There are also search engines that "read" the alt text data for images as
part of the page indexing.

If you wish to see examples of "alt" text being used surf the Net and view
page source code, or, turn your browser image loading "off".

Starr
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-----Original Message-----
From: Esling <esling(at)sandiway.u-net.com>
To: hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org <hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
Date: Wednesday, February 24, 1999 6:34 AM
Subject: Pop-up messages


>I've noticed a few sites recently that when you hover over a grahic or a
>link a little pop-up box appears with an explatory text in it and was
>wondering how this is done. I know that this is similar to much of the
>recent discussion on mouse rollovers. However the difference here is that
>the pop-up box appears to be above and to the side of the object or words
>of the mouseover whereas the normal one is limited by the size of the
>original graphic so that everything else produced by the mouseover is the
>same size - ok if you are doing "moving" buttons.
>
>Tia
>
>Les
>

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